The public unveiling occurred with no formal dedication of the site, which is designed to honor the lives of those killed in the shooting.
Jeff Cohen | Connecticut Public
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Eversource CEO to Biden: Power grid might not withstand cold
Eversource’s CEO has issued a warning: The region’s power supply might not be able to withstand extreme cold weather this winter.
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Feds arrest Bridgeport police chief, city personnel director
Police Chief Armando Perez and David Dunn were charged with fraud for allegedly rigging the 2018 police chief exam.
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Danbury on COVID-19 alert after cases spike
DPH Commissioner Gifford: “This is a serious outbreak in Danbury and we really need an all hands on deck approach..”
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Mission: to mint primary care physicians
Michael Ellison has a tough assignment. He’s the associate dean of admissions choosing the first class of a brand new medical school, the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University in Hamden. “We have over 1,600 applicants, and we will interview 400 for 60 spots,” Ellison says. The school has a very specific mission: […]
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Hartford city hall opens health clinic
Across the country, health care providers, insurers, employers and politicians say they are trying to make it easier to be healthy. It’s even one of the cornerstones of the controversial Affordable Care Act, in which preventative care comes at no extra cost to the patient. Now, Hartford City Hall is joining in — with a […]
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Health insurers move ahead, with or without individual mandate
For the health policy world, the Supreme Court’s tough questioning of the individual mandate last week was a seismic event. But in Hartford, the city sometimes called the epicenter of the insurance industry, David Cordani isn’t quaking. Cordani is the CEO of Cigna, the nation’s fourth-largest health insurer. He says the insurance industry started changing […]
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Digging into public financing: From clerical errors to cash for constituents
Advocates of the state’s Citizens’ Election Fund say that the program succeeded in 2008 – keeping special interest money out of political campaigns by pumping public money in. How much money? Typical Senate candidates in contested races could have gotten as much as $85,000 for the general election. House candidates in the same situation could […]